Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Sanjeev Kumar. You are very much missed, Sanjeev-sir.

* In what is absolutely the best story I read today, Salman Khan brought in as script doctor to Zanjeer.

According to Indian media sources, Khan told Teja, ‘You’re one of the best dancers in Indian cinema. It would be silly to not have you sing and dance.”

Sources added that Khan proposed Priyanka Chopra’s character to be more glamorous because he feels that by changing Chopra’s style and clothes, her character would appear “more attractive.”

They would be foolish NOT to listen to him!

* I wonder what Sallu-bhai has to say about ol' Piggy Chops singing one of the songs in the film.

* Filmfare South Awards winners! I'm happy to see that Ramya got an award~ I still love her, even if she is kind of prickly. The link has a slideshow, too, so you can see a scruffy Vikram holding his award.

"I have nothing to do with Anurag Kashyap. Why on earth shall I be compared with a director who is just a few films old? Please do not compare me with anyone. Parallel cinema is over. There was no survival of it in India. So people who talk about parallel cinema don't know the meaning. And I don't care what Anurag Kashyap is doing," an annoyed Jha said.

The piece ends with a juicy and irrelevant bit of gossip courtesy of the author about how Jha ignored Amol Gupte at some event.

"If remaking a film would have been a cakewalk, I would have done 100 movies already," he says, "I would have been the King of the world. Come on, a remake has its own difficulties that need to be tackled."

* An interview with Homi Adajania director of Cockfail. Hungama picks up on the question everybody has been asking...

Coming to know that this is what Saif does best - play the lover-boy - doesn't the lover-boy look too old now?

This is Saif doing what he does best yaar! I genuinely feel that there is an ease with which he plays such characters because somewhere there is a boyish charm in him still that he carries with him effortlessly. It's inherent. Saif is a very spontaneous actor. He doesn't sit and follow the method. He has got it in him. He can act on impulse. He doesn't try too hard. He is supposed to play an older character than the leading ladies. He doesn't want to shed the boyish madness in him in Cocktail. He doesn't want to grow up and thinks he is living in this eternal youth of his. It's that very reason that his mother played by Dimple Kapadia gets upset with him.

HA HA HA! Has Saif done something to annoy the establishment entertainment press? It's pretty funny, you have to admit. Also, that Dimple is playing his mother - we're only ten years on from Dil Chahta Hai... did Dimple have him when she was 10?

* Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been cast opposite Bipasha Basu in a new film.

* Ah, Mid-Day, keeping it classy by illustrating an article on Sonu Sood wanting respect with the beefcakiest picture of him ever.

Do you think Maximum was the next best logical step after Dabangg?
I would say that an actor needs at least one Maximum once in their career. I am glad that critics have loved my work and I think that while Dabangg gave me the stardom, Maximum has given me the respect that I was craving for.

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From: Citizens of Planet Earth

To: Neil Nitin Mukesh

Subject: Can you just stop already?

Dear Neil,

Not only do we not care about your butthurt breakup with Asin and your attempted matching-plaid media circus with no name Sonal Chauhan but WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOU NAKED.

Not in Jail and certainly not in an "erotic thriller."

To put it another way: no1currrrrr.

Sincerely,

The World

* Vashu Bhagnani has given up promoting Jackky and is instead trying to launch another Chaar Baj Gaye. No word on whether Hard Kaur is doing the rap again.

That was in ref to NNMs semi naked body NOT Sonu, just to clarify. I was temporarily blinded. Next time I will assume the highlighted text may be literal. Eeeeeeeee. Great video on the BBC. I'd love to see more of her.